What is that one book that every time you see it on your feed or in the wild that you say “I’ve been meaning to read that. I’m going to read that”

Mine is: Circe by Madeline Miller

I want to read it. I talk about reading it. I loved her other book I read (Achilles). I think I even had it in my home but did I read it yet? No. 😩

I’m going to read that book… someday.

I was checking how I'm doing for my yearly challenges and I got curious: what reading challenges are you all working on right now?

My main challenges this year are: 1.Reading as many books as possible from my "purchased" TBR (this includes both physical books and ebooks). I'm currently at 1/6 for my purchased ebooks and 3/18 for my physical TBR. With 9 months left in the year, at my minimum of 1 book per month pace I'll get to 13/24, and if I do 2 per month that'll get me to 22/24 which would be great! 2.Reading at least 50% of books in my mother tongue (I'm counting both books in Spanish and Catalan for this). I'm curently at 60% of books I've read being in English, so this one is not going as well 😅 3. Getting to Gold in the Queer Horror quest This is a more recent addition after joining PB a couple of months ago, but I am already one book away from silver so I think it's definitely doable!

"Soft" challenges include getting most of my books from the library and reading more books than audiobooks. I consider these "soft" challenges because I've been hitting them for a few years in a row so I don't need to put much effort into accomplishing them.

What about everyone else, what challenges are you currently working on? I may steal some of your ideas for next year! 🤭

this is a question that i have been thinking about recently: when you read a (recently published?) book and see an em-dash, do you automatically assume that it is ai/that ai was used in the writing process/etc etc

One line, from any book, whether it’s categorized as a romance novel or not, that stuck with you as the epitome of romance. I’m so curious to see what everyone says!

I made a reply to another post on here about how algorithms are a huge part in why people don’t go “crate diving” anymore when it comes to music and how similar activities for all forms of media have fallen out of popularity.

With that preamble out of the way, this is more of a temperature check than anything. Do you find yourself primarily as someone who:

A: Reads books based on word of mouth (booktubers, algorithm recommendations, etc).

B: Reads books cold, with nothing more than the cover, blurb written on the book, or vague familiarity pulling you in.

I’m sure most people sit in the middle. But I’m really curious if the modern reader skews more towards A and I’m just in the “old man yells at cloud” camp, or if there are more B enjoyers like myself!

So I’m wondering if y’all have any ideas I haven’t tried?

I read 5 books for Botanical Horror, but no badge. So I closed out completely and restarted, nothing. I removed one of the books, and readded it, nothing. I deleted the app and redownloaded from the App Store to make sure I had the absolute most recent version, nothing. I read a sixth book in the quest, still nothing.

Should I just read 4 more and hope the gold shows up? (I’ve gotten other badges recently, even one the same day. I leveled up earlier in the day, before I finished the 5th book, and that badge popped right up.)

Let’s play an easy and quick game - Review Chain!

1️⃣ Post a book in the comments - just the title and author is enough. 2️⃣ Scroll through the books posted and leave a ONE WORD review (keep it spoiler free please) 🤫

Let’s see how many words can be used to describe each book, and how much they’re alike - or different! Feel free to kindly debate one another’s words!

Hope everyone is having a good week! 💛

I feel like it‘s the general understanding that books tend to be superiour to their adaptions, but sometimes I feel the exact opposite way.

The two most prevalent example for me are:

How To Train Your Dragon honestly I don‘t think the movies & series can be compared to the books they are fundamentally different stories and I just prefer the movie one (I still remember the disappointment when I got the books from the library and they were nothing like the story I was used to 🥲, though I do wonder where I‘d stand had I read the books before the movies)

AMC‘s Interview with the Vampire/The Vampire Lestat If I‘m being completely honest I haven‘t read the books, mostly because I know that I probably won‘t like them, I‘ve seen a lot of people make show/book comparisons and I always prefer the show version

Are there any adaptations you guys feel the same way about?